WVU team trainer tweets offensive Obama comment

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- West Virginia University athletic department officials won't say how they're handling an offensive tweet about President Obama by a student trainer for the baseball and football teams.

According to the WVU directory, athletic training student Shane Douglas Cooney is from Gainesville, Fla.

On Wednesday, Cooney tweeted that he can't bring himself to think about voting for -- in his words -- "that colored man.''

Cooney doesn't have a phone listing and didn't respond to an email Thursday.

Athletic department spokesman Mike Fragale told the Dominion Post he wouldn't comment because Cooney is protected by federal student privacy laws. Fragale said it's a personnel issue that will be handled internally.